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OMAM Chapter 5

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What has Lennie done at the beginning of chapter 5?

a)

Killed Curley's wife

b)

Killed his puppy

c)

Forgotten to tend the rabbits

d)

Angered George

2.

How does Lennie's puppy die?

a)

Lennie smacks it after it bites him.

b)

Crooks accidentally steps on it.

c)

Lennie takes it away from its mom when it's too young.

d)

Lennie gives it expired milk.

3.

After killing his puppy, Lennie is afraid that...

a)

George is going to beat him up

b)

George will leave the ranch without him

c)

He won't get to tend the rabbits

d)

All of the above

4.

Who joins Lennie in the barn at the beginning of chapter 5?

a)

Curley's wife

b)

Crooks

c)

Candy

d)

George

5.
For what reason can we infer that Curley's wife married Curley?
a)
She was in love with him.
b)
She wanted to get away from her mother.
c)
She wanted to make it as a movie star.
d)
She got pregnant.
6.
Curley's wife said the letter she was expecting from the Hollywood actor was...
a)
thrown away by her mother
b)
ripped up by Curley so she'd marry him
c)
lost in the mail 
d)
never was sent in the first place 
7.

Outside, the men are...

a)

playing checkers

b)

playing chess

c)

eating lunch

d)

playing horseshoes

8.

Why does Lennie begin touching Curley's wife?

a)

Curley's wife tells him that lotion makes her skin soft

b)

Lennie wants to feel the velvet of her dress

c)

Lennie grabs her dress without being told to

d)

Curley's wife offers for him to touch her hair because it is soft

9.

How does Lennie kill Curley's wife?

a)

He breaks her neck.

b)

He suffocates her.

c)

He drowns her.

d)

He shoots her.

10.

Steinbeck describes Curley's wife appearance after she died as...

a)

Horrible and ugly

b)

Pretty and innocent again

c)

Sad and lifeless

d)

Promiscuous and tramp-like

11.

Where does Lennie go at the end of chapter 5?

a)

to Weed

b)

to find his Aunt Clara

c)

to hide in the brush

d)

to the bunkhouse

12.
Who discovers Curley's wife dead in the barn?
a)
Slim
b)
Carlson
c)
Candy
d)
George
13.

True or False: George and Candy plan on buying the land without Lennie.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

True or false: George tells the men where Lennie would have went to hide.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Where do the men go at the end of chapter 5?

a)

to find the sheriff

b)

to bury Curley's wife

c)

to look for Lennie

d)

to church

16.

The story of what Lennie did to the girl in Weed that we read about in Chapter 1 can now be identified as

a)

symbolism

b)

imagery

c)

foreshadowing

d)

apostrophe

17.

______ goes missing at the end of the chapter, and the men assume Lennie stole it.

a)

One of Slim's other puppies

b)

Carlson's gun (Luger)

c)

Crooks' dictionary

d)

Food and a blanket